Iron is useful in anemia, as every one knows. Iron has practically no other field of usefulness in therapeutics. When it is indicated it should be administered in a simple form, such as the pill of ferrous carbonate, for example, and not in a “shotgun” mixture that is quite as likely to do harm as good. The claim that a satisfactory level of blood pressure can be maintained by Phillips’ Phospho-Muriate of Quinine is mentioned only to condemn as the limit of impudent therapeutic claims. It is an insult to the intelligence of any practitioner to pretend that any known agent or combination of remedial agents can maintain a uniform blood pressure in any one of innumerable conditions. In short, Phillips’ Phospho-Muriate of Quinine Comp. is a complex and irrational mixture exploited by means of unwarranted claims. It is a survival of the old days of therapeutic chaos when impossible and fantastic chemical formulas were gravely published and as solemnly accepted without question, and also without the slightest understanding on the part of many; when the most eminent of practitioners did not hesitate to give glowing testimonials for lithia waters that contained no more lithium than ordinary river water; when no therapeutic claim was too preposterous to receive acceptance, no theory too nonsensical to justify the use of all manner of claptrap mixtures for all manner of conditions.--(_From The Journal A. M. A., Oct. 19, 1918._) B. IODINE AND B. OLEUM IODINE Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry The Council has authorized publication of the following report on “B. Iodine” and “B. Oleum Iodine,” together with the reply submitted by the manufacturer and a discussion thereon by the referee in charge of the preparations. W. A. Puckner, Secretary. Specimens of B. Iodine and B. Oleum Iodine (B. Iodine Chemical Company) and an advertising pamphlet were sent to the Council by John Bohlander, A.M., M.D., with the declaration: “Well knowing the value of Iodin in surgical operations and dressings, prompted me for the benefit of my fellow physicians as well as myself, and for Humanity’s sake, to make Iodin my master-piece in chemistry. “After several years of diligent work in my private laboratory I succeeded in discovering a new product of Iodin--Nitrogen, hydrate of Iodin.” While “B. Iodine” is said to be nitrogen hydrate of iodin and “B. Oleum Iodine” a 5 per cent. solution thereof, the examination made by Prof. A. H. Clark of the University of Illinois, School of Pharmacy (working in the A. M. A. Chemical Laboratory), indicates that the first is a simple mixture of iodin and ammonium iodid, and the second a solution of iodin in liquid petrolatum. The Council adopted the report of the A. M. A. Chemical Laboratory (which appears below) and declared B. Iodine and B. Oleum Iodine inadmissible to New and Nonofficial Remedies because: